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The Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Denmark or National Church (Danish: Folkekirken, lit. 'the People's Church', or unofficially den danske folkekirke, 'the Danish People's Church'; Greenlandic: Ilagiit, lit. 'the Congregation'), sometimes called the Church of Denmark, is the established, state-supported church in Denmark. [3]
Martin's Church in 1877. In 1855 pastor Niels Pedersen Grunnet founded an evangelical-Lutheran congregation in Copenhagen. [1]The architects Alfred Jensen and August Johansen were commissioned to design a church for the congregation in the mid-1870s and a site was purchased on the east side of Vodroffsvej in Fredeirksberg.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant church headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA was officially formed on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three Lutheran church bodies. As of December 31, 2023, it has approximately 2.79 million baptized members in 8,498 congregations. [3]
LUCK — By almost any measure, West Denmark Lutheran Church is a small congregation. About 35 members gather to worship on a typical Sunday. But on a sunny day this spring, its parish hall was ...
The Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church Association in America, or simply the Blair Church or the Danish Association, was founded in 1884 when a group of Danish congregations left the Conference of the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. [1]
The Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America (ELDoNA) is a confessional Lutheran church body in the United States.There are twenty-eight pastors in the diocese, serving congregations in Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin plus Colombia and the Philippines.
In 1872, a free conference was held in Gravelton, Missouri, with participants from that group, the LCMS, the Holston Synod, and the Norwegian Synod. The LCMS president, C. F. W. Walther, urged the Tennessee Synod members to organize themselves as a conference of the Tennessee Synod, the English (Evangelical) Lutheran Conference of Missouri. [2]
The Diocese of Copenhagen (Danish: Københavns Stift) is a diocese within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark. The Bishop of Copenhagen is currently Peter Skov-Jakobsen, who replaced Erik Normann Svendsen in 2009. [1] The main cathedral of the diocese is the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen. [2]